Kazuo Kubo

Kazuo Kubo, Osaka JP

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Description

Published

20110000310

GAS METER AND GAS SECURITY SYSTEM - The present invention is intended to make it possible to set security functions as necessary depending on usage environment, etc. and to improve the security functions; a function setting section

01-06-2011

20110004353

GAS METER AND GAS SAFETY SYSTEM - Setting safety function, as appropriate, according to a user environment is enabled, thereby enhancing safety function. According to selection information from a safety function selection unit

01-06-2011

20110010110

GAS METER AND GAS METER SYSTEM - A challenge to be met by the present invention is to enable appropriate setting of safety function according to a use environment and enhance safety function. An IC card (

01-13-2011

20110077874

APPLIANCE MONITORING APPARATUS - A conventional appliance monitoring apparatus handles only the amount of gas used and security information for the case of a gas cutoff and can not address social needs for a desire to obtain information about influence (e.g., an amount of CO

03-31-2011

Kazuo Kubo, Hyogo JP

Patent application number

Description

Published

20100330515

GAS SHUTOFF DEVICE AND ALARM-COMPATIBLE SYSTEM METER - An object of the invention is to appropriately control the use limit function of an appliance according to the concentration level of CO gas. A gas shutoff device is made up of a flow rate registration unit

12-30-2010

20110012738

APPLIANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM AND GAS SUPPLY SYSTEM - It is an object to acquire in real time information about the type of an appliance used at home, a cumulative time elapsed from installation of the appliance, and the like; preliminarily acquire inspection timing; and prevent occurrence of a problem in the appliance. There are provided an appliance determination section

01-20-2011

20110066387

APPLIANCE MONITORING APPARATUS - A convention appliance monitoring apparatus handles only the amount of gas used and security information for the case of a gas cutoff and can not address social needs for a desire to obtain information about influence (e.g., an amount of CO

03-17-2011

Kazuo Kubo, Tokyo JP

Patent application number

Description

Published

20100275104

ERROR CORRECTING DEVICE AND ERROR CORRECTING METHOD - An error correcting device in an optical communication system that transmits a transmission frame formed by adding an overhead and an error correction code to information data uses a concatenated code or an iterated code of at least two error correction codes as an outer code and an error correction code for soft-decision decoding as an inner code.

10-28-2010

20100287449

FEC FRAME STRUCTURING DEVICE AND FEC FRAME STRUCTURING METHOD - An FEC frame structuring device includes a multi-lane distributing unit that distributes a data frame to be transmitted to n lanes, FEC coding units each performs FEC coding of the distributed data frame independently for each of the n lanes to generate an FEC frame, a multiplexing unit that multiplexes the FEC frame from the FEC coding units by relating to m channels of an optical signal, a demultiplexing unit that demultiplexes the m channels of the received optical signal by relating to the n lanes, FEC decoding units each performs FEC decoding of the demultiplexed FEC frame independently for each of the n lanes, and a multi-lane synchronizing unit that synchronizes the n lanes with each other after the FEC decoding performed by the FEC decoding units to reconstruct the original data frame.

11-11-2010

20100287450

OPTICAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND OPTICAL RECEIVING METHOD - An optical receiving apparatus includes: an A/D converting circuit; a received-signal demodulating circuit that demodulates a received digital signal from the A/D converting circuit into an m-bit received signal; a soft-decision-data generating circuit that generates n-bit (n≦m) soft-decision data based on the m-bit received signal; and an error correcting circuit that performs error correction based on the n-bit soft-decision data and outputs an error-corrected received signal. The soft-decision-data generating circuit generates soft-decision data of n bits (n=p+1) that corresponds to a determination result according to 2

OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM, OPTICAL REDUNDANT SWITCHING APPARATUS, AND WDM APPARATUS - An optical network system includes a first node that converts input signals of n systems into optical signals having wavelengths different for each of the systems and wavelength-multiplexes and transmits the optical signals and a second node that selects signals of n systems from the wavelength-multiplexed signals and outputs the signals. The first node includes an optical coupler that divides the input signals into operating system signals and redundant signals, TPNDs that convert the operating systems into optical signals, an optical switch that selects standby system signals from the redundant signals, and a TPND that converts the standby system signals into optical signals in a storage mode corresponding to a type of the standby system signals. The second node includes TPNDs that convert the optical signals converted from the operating system signals into signals of a type corresponding to the input signals, a TPND that converts the optical signals of the standby system signals into signals of the type of the input signals in a storage mode corresponding to the standby system signals, and an optical switch that selects an output destination of the signals output from the TPND.

OPTICAL TRANSMISSION APPARATUS - An optical transmission apparatus that protects different types of signals with a common backup transponder. The optical transmission apparatus includes working transponder units that relay respective optical signals on corresponding working transmission lines to or from external client devices, a backup transponder unit that can relay optical signals of different interface types, a 3:1 optical switch unit and a 1:3 optical switch unit that connect the external client devices and the working transponder units, and can connect the external client device and the backup transponder unit, and a monitor control unit that monitors occurrence of a failure in the working transponder units and the backup transponder unit, and controls switching of the transmission lines upon detection of a failure.

12-22-2011

20120183303

MULTILEVEL MODULATED OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER AND MULTILEVEL MODULATED OPTICAL TRANSMITTING/RECEIVING METHOD - A digital signal processing optical transceiver includes: a reception front end for separating an optical reception signal from a communication path into a total of four channels including an I-channel and a Q-channel of an X-polarized wave component and an I-channel and a Q-channel of a Y-polarized wave component; and a digital signal processing unit for: performing signal point determination with respect to signals of the four channels; when there are only two signal points, selecting two channels including an I-channel component of an X-polarized wave and an I-channel component of a Y-polarized wave and performing signal processing thereon; and when there are four signal points, selecting the four channels including the I-channel component and a Q-channel component of the X-polarized wave and the I-channel component and a Q-channel component of the Y-polarized wave and performing the signal processing thereon.

07-19-2012

20120237199

OPTICAL NETWORK SYSTEM AND WDM APPARATUS - An optical network system that performs transmission of N:1 protection includes a node that includes transmission-side operating muxponders that multiplex client signals for every M-channel signal bundle and convert multiplexed signals into optical signals having different wavelengths, transmission-side optical couplers that branch the client signals into two channels of operating and redundant, transmission-side optical switches each selecting one channel from redundant signals as a redundant client signal, and a transmission-side redundant muxponder that performs a predetermined transmission-side process according to an accommodation mode set on the redundant client signal and then multiplexes the redundant client signals, converts the multiplexed signal into an optical signal having a wavelength different from that of the operating signal, thereby making the accommodation mode settable for each channel in an independent manner.

09-20-2012

20120246537

ERROR CORRECTION METHOD AND DEVICE - Provided is an error correction method for an optical communication system that transmits a transmission frame formed of information data added with an overhead and an error correction code, the error correction method including adjusting a size of an FEC redundant area of an FEC frame for storing client signals of different signal types in accordance with the client signals so that transmission rates of the FEC frame for the respective client signals have an approximately N-multiple relationship (N is a positive natural number). With this, it is possible to obtain an error correction method and device capable of providing a high-quality and high-speed optical communication system without performance degradation caused by jitter or the like and with the common use of circuits having a reduced circuit scale.

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ESTIMATING INPUT BIT ERROR RATIO - An input bit error ratio estimating method executed by a communication control unit includes a computing, a condition determining, a first input BER estimating, a second input BER estimating, a third input BER estimating, and an input BER estimation result outputting. In the condition determining, the communication control unit determines which of a plurality of conditions set in advance to be narrowed down to one has been established, based on a post-internal decoding residual error detection ratio. Based on the condition that is determined in the condition determining as one that has been established, the communication control unit selects one out of a plurality of processing procedures for estimating the input BER, namely, selects one of the first input BER estimating to the third input BER estimating and executes the selected processing.

11-21-2013

20130311847

ERROR CORRECTION CODING DEVICE, ERROR CORRECTION DECODING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREFOR - Provided is an error correction encoder that performs coding on both a transmission area and a redundancy area of the transmission frame by using a product code, and when excess or deficiency is arisen with respect to allocation of an information sequence area and/or a parity sequence area in a product code frame generated by the coding using the product code, non-uniformly allocate the information sequence area to the parity sequence area, and/or non-uniformly allocate the parity sequence area to the information sequence area, where each of the non-uniform allocations is performed in accordance with the arisen excess or deficiency.

11-21-2013

20140122978

FRAME GENERATION METHOD, OPTICAL TRANSMISSION DEVICE, AND OPTICAL TRANSMISSION SYSTEM - A frame generation method in an optical transmission system that transmits a transmission frame including a payload area for storing therein information data and an FEC redundant area for storing therein an error correcting code with respect to the information data is provided, in which coding gain is calculated based on the quality of a communication path through which the transmission frame is transmitted, and, when it is determined that redundancy is insufficient with an error correcting code stored in the FEC redundant area based on the coding gain, a variable parity area for storing therein the error correcting code is set in the payload area and a transmission frame in which the error correcting code is stored in the FEC redundant area and the variable parity area is generated.